With Open Eyes...
Wednesday, 13th week in Ordinary Time
Gen 21: 5, 8-20a; Mt 8: 28-34
Hagar had almost given up. For her it was all over. She found no scope of living on and no chance of surviving that desertedness. All that while the well was just round the corner. She was so filled with self pity that she was not able to see the ample opportunity just there for hers to take. All that God did was open her eyes that she may see the well. However, finally she does see unlike the people of Gerasene who never saw till the end, who it was that had entered their village. Their self pity of having lost their swine in thousands blinded their eyes from perceiving the great and wonderful blessings that Jesus had in store for them. What a great miss it was, they asked Jesus to leave! If only they saw who they were rejecting; if only they beheld the blessings that he brought! If only they lived their lives with open eyes...